Display box and supporting element for suspenders



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY A; PETER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO PIONEERSUSPENDER COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

DISPLAY BOX AND SUPPORTING ELEMENT FOR SUSPENDERS.

Application filed January 30, 1925.

My invention relates to display boxes for suspenders. The object is toprovide an improved box or container for holding a pair of suspendersfor purposes of transportation and also for display.

The invention comprises a box and a telescoping lid therefor; the boxprovided with partial covering portions adjacent the two ends andextending a comparatively short distance therefrom along the top marginsof the side portions; the box in other respects being open as to oneside. The purpose 1s to leave the box open entirely from onelongitudinal side portion to the other longitudinal side portion, sothat the two free ends of the suspender will be exposed to View fromside to side; that is to say, the width of the box is slightly greaterthan the width of two suspender straps so that there will be nooverhanging portions on the two Iongitudinal sides. In combination withthis there is provided a supporting element such as a card adapted tofit within the box, be ing slightly narrower and slightly shorter thanthe inside of the box. Upon this element the suspenders are detachablysecured by any suitable means, and the ends of the supporting element,together with the suspenders secured thereto, are inserted beneath thepartial covering portions as herein shown.

Referring to the drawings, which illustrate, merely by way of example, asuitable embodiment of my invention z- Fig. l is a perspective viewshowing the method of inserting the suspenders and the supportingelement into the box.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the box with the suspenders thereinand the telescoping lid or cover closing the open part thereof.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The box 3 is preferably of rectangular formation, long, narrow andshallow, adapted to accommodate one pair of suspenders 4, folded about asupporting element 5, as shown. The suspenders are remova-bly se- SerialNo. 5,714.

cured to the supporting element 5 by any suitable means, such as theband 6. The box tively short distance from said ends, and enf gagingthroughout said distance with the side portions or walls of the box.When inserting the supporting element, with the suspenders securedthereto, the element is bent or flexed as indicated in Fig. 1, so thatthe ends may be inserted beneath the partial covering portions 7, andthen, when the supporting element is flattened out, it will liesubstantially the entire length of the box, with the major portion ofthe front part of the suspenders fully exposed to View. A telescopinglid or cover 8 is provided for closing the open portion of the box, fortransportation. This lid may be entirely removed, or it may bepositioned about the under portion of the box for display.

What I claim is The combination of a display box and supporting elementfor suspenders, comprising a container having bottom, side and endportions, and top portions permanently secured to the end portions andextending therefrom a relatively sort distance and secured along saidextensions to the top edges of the side portions, a flexible supportingelement corresponding approximately in dimensions with the dimensions ofthe bottom portion Within the box, said supporting element provided witha pair of suspenders extending longitudinally around said supportingelement with retaining means for securing the suspenders in saidposition with respect to the supporting element, said support-ingelement adapted to be flexed in order to introduce the ends thereof,with the suspenders supported thereby, beneath the said short extensionsand then to assume the flat position, as and for the purpose described.

HENRY A. PETER.

